IMAGE: JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, the quintessential “financial buccaneer.” This is a retouched picture since Morgan suffered from an advanced case of rosacea that severely deformed his naturally bulbous nose. And is that a butcher’s knife on his left hand or the chair’s arm?
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“The IMF announcement is in fact the start of a worldwide program of genocide similar to what was done to Russia in the 1990s, with crushing poverty, slashing of incomes, reduction of benefits for the poor and elderly, rising levels of disease and malnutrition, and reduction of life expectancy. We in the West will view the carnage with alarm from our own stripped-down economies but remain docile out of fear the same will be done to us….”